The Arizona sentinel., 1887-08-20
CARE OF POULTRY.
How to Stimulate the Production of Eggs
 at All Seasons of the Year.

] at All Seasons of the Year.
 It is to be supposed that any person can gather eggs from spring till in the fall, so it will only be necessary to speak particularly in regard to late fall and winter While considerable care is required in late fall and winter, I think that it will also pay to look after the interest of the poultry during the whole year. Some farmers think that chickens will take care of themselves during the summer months; that it is not necessary to feed any; they get enough of insects. If you have a wheat field or potato patch near the house, my word for it, they will take care of themselves and lay you plenty of eggs.
 It is better to feed small ration of corn or wheat twice day all summer. This will keep your chickens tame end quiet and they will not bother your or chard or garden so bad. But during the cold months of winter warm and comfortable places must be prepared, with plenty of feed. Some writers ad- wise feeding three times day during the winter, but I think that morning and night is enough, if properly done. In the morning give warm feed of scalded oats or wheat mixed with meal or bran, about three parts oats, one of meal and one of bran, and meat chopped fine every other morning. Do not throw the feed down in the dirt, but provide troughs. have found the V-shaped trough to be very good, as they can eat from both sides and will not jump in them so bad as the flat trough. At night give corn or wheat, or both mixed, equal parts.
 Save your apple and potato parings, cabbage, small potatoes and other veg etables, and keep your poultry house constantly supplied with these, that there may be a change to continually tempt their appetites. Also plenty of milk and water where they can have access whenever thirsty. A dust box should be provided in one corner of feed room 10 be supplied with dry dust from the road. sand, and little lime.
 Every morning when you go to feed take bucket of coal ashes and scatter where they can get at it. Mix up a large cake of lime mortar, such as you use for clustering; let it dry, place it in your poultry house, and watch them some morning when the thermometer is down below zero and see how they will enjoy picking at it. I do not think it necessary for farmers to buy oyster shells and such things as are advertised for the poultry ohuse, if proper feed is prepared at home. This is little like some of the farmers in my county buy ing fertilizers for crops and letting manure lie in the barnyard.
 In the fall or early part of winter sort your fowls. Tako out all your old hens. and any that are not perfect, and sell to the shipper, as it does not pay to keep hen for eggs after two years old. Sell all old cockerels and send to some reliable breeder and re- place with new blood. We do not ad- wise keeping poor chickens any more than poor sheep or cattle. A sheep shearing four pounds of wool will eat as much as one shearing eight Like. wise hen that will lay eight dozen eggs in one year will eat as much as one that lays sixteen.
 The kind of fowl kept must depend upon the situation. Almost every per son shows q partiality for certain breed. Keep the kind that is most adapted. for your use.-Cor. Ohio Farmer.
 As fire trieth iron. So temntation !